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Balthazaar´s Gift
raced far side 1st 2f, well in rear when groups merged, still well at the back but going strongly over 1f out, shaken up and finished full of running, hopeless task.Comments from racing post!!
We see incompetent rides everyday and this was up there with the worst of them,just take a look at the head on Camera,Fanny changed position several times,on a number of occassions their was enough of a gap to squeeze a lorry through,following on from his fall on friday i think Fanny bottled it!! In my opinion even Richard Hills would have tried to go through the gap that was available and he`s my idea of the “softest“ jockey out there!!
Will Luca Cumani show the same loyalty next time this horse is seen?
Must admit not to following any jockey changes and only blicked at Racing post comments to see if they read the race similiar to me…………..so it was the useless Aussie in this case!!
Actually Fanny got him in enough trouble when he won the Gp 3 a few days earlier so i was expecting much of the same,theirs no oops……the ride was atrocious to say the least!!
Must admit not to following any jockey changes and only blicked at Racing post comments to see if they read the race similiar to me…………..so it was the useless Aussie in this case!!
Actually Fanny got him in enough trouble when he won the Gp 3 a few days earlier so i was expecting much of the same,theirs no oops……the ride was atrocious to say the least!!
Tony this is a mother theresa like forum at times, and moans like yours are usually ignored, thats why there wasn’t much of a response to your thread. But have to agree horse was given a terrible poor ride by Mc Evoy, who is to some beyond criticism. Backed both Fantasy Believer & Balthazar so I am talking through my pocket, "Just a little"
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I’m afraid I disagree with both of you.
Needing the horse to win to salvage anything from HJ’s Goodwood comp, I watched his run throughout the race, and the re-run today.
To my mind, he was outpaced from a very early stage and didn’t get going until it was all too late.
Yesterday’s run is entirely consistent with his previous form and, had the ground been slower, or the track a little stiffer, his run may well have got him there.
Not the jockey’s fault, in my view.
You can moan I backed Baltic King today and had my seconditis continued because of jockey error. Took his time to get through a gap then with the horse closing hand over fist not one slap with the whip. Beaten a short head that one slap just might’ve made the difference.
I’m having one of those spells at the moment 2nd, 2nd, sodding 2nd.
I’d rather be beaten twenty lengths.If you’re reet, reet hard, this torpor at the beginning of races must have developed since he came second, beaten a neck, as a 3-year old in the Jubilee Stakes. I’m not saying you’re wrong – just mentioning it.
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If you’re reet, reet hard, this torpor at the beginning of races must have developed since he came second, beaten a neck, as a 3-year old in the Jubilee Stakes. I’m not saying you’re wrong – just mentioning it.
I hear what you’re saying Grimes, but that form is really no different from Saturday’s in the circumstances.
In the Golden Jubilee he was an outpaced last at halfway, and made up 4 lengths on the winner in the final furlong.
Ascot’s 6f is also 3.4 secs stiffer than Goodwood’s according to RP standard times, so essentially he ran a very similar race.
I’d rather be beaten twenty lengths.
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